PHYS381-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Advanced Experimental Physics and Astronomy

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 30 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 October 2017

Description

Execution and write-up of selected laboratory experiments.

Prerequisites

(1) PHYS285; (2) 30 points from PHYS201-206 including either PHYS202 or PHYS205); (3) MATH103 or EMTH119. RP: MATH201

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Recommended Preparation

Course Coordinator

Adrian McDonald

Lab Technician

Clifford Franklin

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Two introductory experiments 20% Submitted reports and subsidiary files for two introductory experiments which are data acquisition (LabVIEW) and data analysis (Matlab). You are expected to use the first two weeks of term 3 to complete these introductory experiments. Reports for this are due two weeks after the scheduled laboratory.
10 Week Research project 80% A 10 week research project. The report for this project is due to be handed in by 5:00 pm Friday 20th October 2017. The assessment breakdown for this 80% component of the course is: 20% A short oral presentation (a 10 min talk) in the first week of term 4 which presents the project goals, a literature review and progress to date. 60 % A 15 page report in the style of a scientific paper due on the last day of term (20th October 2017), which will be marked by both your academic supervisor and another academic from the physics department.


20%     Submitted reports and subsidiary files for two introductory experiments which are data acquisition (LabVIEW) and data analysis (Matlab). You are expected to use the first two weeks of term 3 to complete these introductory experiments. Reports for this are due two weeks after the scheduled laboratory.

80%     A 10 week research project. The report for this project is due to be handed in by 5:00 pm Friday 20th October 2017. The assessment breakdown for this 80% component of the course is:

20%   A short oral presentation (a 10 min talk) in the first week of term 4 which presents the project goals, a literature review and progress to date.
60 %   A 15 page report in the style of a scientific paper due on the last day of term (20th October 2017), which will be marked by both your academic supervisor and another academic from the physics department.

You will be provided with a list of projects to choose from during week two of term three.

Additional Course Outline Information

Academic integrity

Please consult the document General Information for Physics and Astronomy Students on the Physics and Astronomy Web Page.
http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/courses/General.pdf

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $848.00

International fee $3,713.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

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